Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-10-26
EDITORIAL NOTES.

town of Straford-on Avon with a
 Shakespeare memorial fountain.
 By the attempt to force the Apaohes
 on a military reservation in this county.
 General Miles has forfeited the Tasting
 gratitude, etc.
 Emerson, who lately pleaded guilty to
 a charge of jury bribing, in San Fran cisco, has been sentto the penItentlary
 for seven years.
 Phenix and Prescott are united on
 one proposition, that is that the two
 great cities of Arizona be united by al
 rail communication.
 A young Mexican boy in Albuquerque
 used loaded shot gun as a lung tester
 blowing in the muzzie oi ], and had the
 entire top of his head blown of in re- turn.
 The Gazette claims ths, Phenix will
 have one of the best wateIwoIks m
 Arizona in less than ayear. Hope they
 will have water enough to keep them
 agoing.
 The JouRNAL-MrNER neither fears to commend the worthy actions of inoivid-
 uals or officials or cri,icise the bad ones.
 In doing so paper can be just as well
 as consistent.
 The Providence Journal says that there are more stumbling blocks in the way of Jacob Sharp's path to Sing Sing than there was in the pilgrim's progress to the promised land.
 President Cleveland and Postmaster General Villas got of ofthe presidential train at a coun.sy cross roads Tn Ten nessee and the train pulled put and run for over a mile before they were missed
 Two thousand employees Of the old Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph company have been noti6ed by the Western Union Telelegraph company that their services will not be required after No sember first.
 The Star says it ''had hoped to ger advance sheets of the governors address, so that we could lay the same before our readers Tuesday morning. tut the gov ernor evidently overlooked the Star in his distribution However, the speech VIII keep"
 When Gene'al Butler was young man he was examined for department clerkship To the question, "Wha, states | and terri,ones would yop cross going from New York to the Pacific coast P he answered, "None; would go round 1 by Cape Horn,"
 Anarchist Parsons who professes not to believe in law or constitution appeals | to both to save his wcithless neck. | People who believe in both think that they both can be put to better use than a the protection ofsuch murderers as Parsons, Spies e, i'd genrs omme
 Montana owns the greatest silver mine in the world, the Gfaniie Mountain; the greatest silver-goid mine in the world ths Drum Lummon the greatest copper mine in the world, the Anaconda. And these three properties together are en- riching the world at the rate of Sro, ooo, 900 per snnum.
 The population of Arizona, accord ing to Governor Zulick's report to the secretary of the interior, is at present 10000 being an increase of 5o,oco over be census estimates of 1880. The aggregate valuation of the taxable prop .rty for the present year is Se6, ,5Isooc, ln increase of nearly S6. .ooo.ooo over 1886.
 The New York World, staunch dem ,crstic paper, speaking of the platform # its party in that state, says That ,latform, with the exception of is ex- .ellent plank on the tsnff question, has mighty little to commend itself 10 the pproval of the laboring men or auy- 'ody else. It is dumb OF the sggres- ions of corporate poser. It IS silent Q the corruption of the money-eas in 'oli,ics. I, ignores the great question f temperance and other moral issues hal are stirring ,he community. If the emocrats the state this fall, they will do Q not because. but in spite of, their latform." Edison, the great lightning manipn- ltor, says: "The next invention is likely , be the turning of coal into a motive over without the meditation of steam. arn now al work on a machine for this urpose. Almost all of our available nergy Is in coal ard wood. We get 1t ut a, terrible cost, t5lnjiltbs q the heat oes up the chimney, and only one ', fth out into the room where il IS anted. Coal can be turned lmmedi- ely into electricity. l have demon rated that, and will know in short me whether 1t can be done without I, osting more than i comes 10. If my ;- leas are realized, steamer that now f, rms out one hundred and forty tons of VT pal a day will burn twenty-five tons a stead" An Fl Paso telegram says: Two IT [exican officers who were concerned l T the Nogales outrage last spring, and b ere sentenced to sho. by the judge = Iens of the special court martial, has T cen confined in jail since then pending IT . appealfor mitigation of punishment, d hich was strongly ;ndorsed by the state O